Media and Information: BLS Spotlight on Statistics

Media-Related Time Use

Percent of population who engaged in primary media-related activities and hours spent in media-related activity, on an average day, 2011
Activity	Average hours per day for persons who engaged in activity	Percent who engaged in activity
Attending movies and film	2.43	1.10
Listening to radio	1.18	1.60
Household and personal emails and messages	0.64	6.30
Telephone calls	0.75	12.90
Computer use for leisure	1.60	13.70
Reading for personal interest	1.48	20.00
Watching TV	3.51	78.30
NOTE: Data refer to persons in the civilian noninstitutional population, age 15 years and older. A primary activity is a person's main activity. Other activities done simultaneously are not included in these data. Some activities frequently are done at the same time and secondary to other activities, for example, someone might be driving as a primary activity while also listening to the radio.